1930's - present 5 Mile Bridge to Slidell

1930s postcard entitled, "Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, La. World's Longest Continous Concrete Highway Bridge".

This bridge, which is known to locals as the "5 Mile Bridge" spans from New Orleans East to Slidell. It lost its "World's longest..." title to the Causeway Bridge in the 1950's.

• Across the Lake
  • 1860s Pontchartrain Railroad Company Steamer Receipts
  • 1895 ~CAPE CHARLES Ferry/Steamboat
  • 1900's ~The steamboat New Camelia
  • 1930's - present 5 Mile Bridge to Slidell
  • 1956 - present ~~The Causeway
  • Illinois Central Railroad
  • L.& N. Railroad
  • Southern Railway
• Over the Lake
• Overview of Transportation and the Lake
• To the Lake